Chapter Summaries

Su Bai gave White Snake a Dream-Sinking Cold Crystal to treat an old injury, earning her and Green Snake’s lasting gratitude. The two Peak Deity Transformation Demon Ancestors promised to repay his kindness, while Su Bai credited his success to treasures from Master Lu Jiu.

• Su Bai saw that White Snake’s old injury remained after her Primordial Spirit had healed.
• Su Bai gave White Snake a Dream-Sinking Cold Crystal to help repair the injury.
• White Snake accepted the crystal and promised that she owed Su Bai a life.
• Green Snake thanked Su Bai and promised she would not refuse his future requests, provided they did not violate her principles or the righteous path.
• Su Bai humbly attributed his rescue of the two demon ancestors to spatial treasures bestowed by Master Lu Jiu.

Liu Meng brought Su Bai to the Dream Tapir Clan’s gathering hall in the Hill Ruins and invited its Elders to meet him. Four powerful Elders arrived, including a Peak Deity Transformation powerhouse, and regarded Su Bai with curiosity and caution.

• Liu Meng guided Su Bai through the Dream Tapir Clan’s glass-cottage settlement to its grand hall on Skull Hill.
• Liu Meng apologized for the clan grounds’ simplicity, and Su Bai praised their dreamlike scenery and tranquil atmosphere.
• Liu Meng told Su Bai that several Elders wished to meet him and asked whether he would welcome their visit.
• Su Bai agreed to pay his respects, and Liu Meng sent a telepathic invitation to the Elders.
• Four Elders entered the hall, led by a Peak Deity Transformation powerhouse, and watched Su Bai with curiosity and caution.

Su Bai asked Great Elder Qi Meng about the Dream Tapir Clan’s knowledge of advancing Mental Laws to Void Refining, while explaining how he had independently comprehended one. Qi Meng began describing the many branches of Mental Laws.

• Su Bai considered the Mental Law treasures he had obtained and the knowledge he needed to advance a Law toward Void Refining.
• Su Bai asked Great Elder Qi Meng for the Dream Tapir Clan’s insights into the Mental Law cultivation path and its bottlenecks.
• Qi Meng expressed surprise that a Human Race Cultivator had independently comprehended a Mental Law.
• Su Bai credited his unusual breadth of study to the teachings of his master, Lu Jiu, and described his insight as a fortuitous coincidence.
• Qi Meng praised Lu Jiu and explained that Mental Laws included the Law of Dreams, the Law of Illusion, and laws involving emotions, memories, cognition, and control of the mind.

Su Bai settled into his glass house in the Hill Ruins and examined a Mental Law Crystal refined from a Deep Blue node. He counted the two hundred crystals he had gained and began assessing their immense stores of Law energy.

• Su Bai admired the Hill Ruins from the glass house Great Elder Qi Meng had arranged for him.
• Su Bai sat on the glass lotus cushion and took out a Mental Law Crystal refined from a Deep Blue node.
• Su Bai reflected that Deep Blue nodes were unusually easy to purify because they lacked independent souls and complex wills.
• Su Bai counted two hundred Mental Law Crystals stored in the Sword Pavilion Secret Realm and estimated that each contained about three strands of Law source.

After ten days of secluded cultivation, Su Bai accompanied Great Elder Qi Meng into the core of the ancient beast’s skull and reached the Dream Tapir Clan’s Holy Land. Qi Meng explained that the Heart-Reflecting Mirror Lake was formed from an ancient ancestor’s remains and Dao Fruit, leaving Su Bai before the clan’s dreamlike sacred lake.

• Su Bai emerged from ten days of cultivation with a profound change in his spiritual origin, which Qi Meng noticed but did not reveal.
• Qi Meng and Liu Meng arrived, and Qi Meng led the prepared Su Bai behind the palace and into a passage beneath it.
• Su Bai followed Qi Meng through the ancient beast’s skull to a cavern containing a Magic Array and the Dream Tapir Clan’s Holy Land.
• Qi Meng explained that an ancient Dream Tapir ancestor had transformed part of his remains and Dao Fruit into the Hill Ruins as he approached Dao transformation.
• Qi Meng said the ancient ancestor’s sea of consciousness had become the Heart-Reflecting Mirror Lake, which Su Bai observed resonating with [Boundless Dao Source].

Su Bai sealed a fragment of the Mental Law within his Primordial Spirit, gaining a shortcut toward Void Refining at the cost of half his Spiritual Sense power. Fifteen years had passed when he emerged from Mirror Lake and found Liu Meng waiting for him.

• Su Bai permanently sealed the crimson Law fragment within his Primordial Spirit, using half his power to protect it and preserving a coordinate to the Mental Law’s main vein.
• Su Bai severed his connection to the main vein and returned his awareness to his body in the glazed cottage.
• Su Bai discovered that fifteen years had passed during his work in Mirror Lake and reflected on the difficulty of advancing to Void Refining.
• Su Bai left Mirror Lake without breaking its Magic Array and reappeared in the secluded cavern outside.
• Liu Meng greeted Su Bai after keeping watch for fifteen years, her expression showing palpable resentment.

On his true nine-hundredth birthday, Su Bai reflected on his rise to Peak Deity Transformation and the major events of the past three centuries. He had obtained the Yin Law and was working to integrate it into his Grand Five Elements Sword Array.

• Su Bai celebrated his nine-hundredth birthday with a small gathering, while publicly claiming to be one thousand five hundred years old.
• Yan Tian became Crown Prince and reached Deity Transformation, while Xuanyuan Ningxin and her four Grand Commanders gained great authority and renown.
• Su Bai gave Great Elder Qi Meng ten Deity Transformation Breakthrough Pills, fulfilling his promise to the Dream Tapir Clan.
• At Blood Eye's invitation, Su Bai visited the Thousand Caverns Grotto-Heaven and copied the Yin Law from a reclusive Peak Deity Transformation elder of the Profound Yin Bat Demon clan.
• Su Bai returned with both yin and yang laws in his Primordial Spirit and began trying to incorporate them into his Grand Five Elements Sword Array.

On his nine-hundredth birthday, Su Bai reviewed the Laws and cultivation methods he had advanced over nearly three hundred years. His sword Dao neared a threshold where he would need precious law treasures to progress, while his growing mastery of space and other Laws strengthened his abilities and informed his plans for a Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array.

• Su Bai reflected on raising his comprehension of [Myriad Transformations Sword Dao] from 7.5% to 29% and recognized that reaching 30% would require refining sword-dao law treasures for further progress.
• Su Bai brought the Five Elements Laws and Wind Law to perfection, establishing a stable foundation for his Grand Five Elements Sword Array.
• During a Demon Suppression Division mission, Su Bai copied the Void-Escaping Spirit Mouse’s Law of Space and used its origin essence and his accumulated treasures to raise his comprehension to 65%.
• Su Bai reviewed his Yang Law at 96% and his newly acquired Yin Law at 91%, which he hoped to incorporate into a Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Array.
• Su Bai noted that [Five Thunders Orthodox Method] had reached only 8% and [Law of Momentum] only 3%, leaving both as limited abilities for now.

Su Bai completed a powerful avatar with a peak Nascent Soul appearance and infused it with a wisp of his Primordial Spirit. The avatar awakened and received the task of traveling into the Qingxuan Realm to gather Yin-Yang attribute Sword Dao Divine Abilities.

• Su Bai finished forging a jade-white avatar whose physical strength rivaled an ordinary early Spirit Transformation Body Cultivator while concealing its demonic aura.
• Su Bai separated a wisp of his Primordial Spirit intent, including his memories and abilities, and infused it into the avatar.
• The avatar awakened, gained an independent consciousness, and greeted Su Bai's Main Body.
• Su Bai entrusted the avatar with entering the Qingxuan Realm and gathering Yin-Yang attribute Sword Dao Divine Abilities.

Su Bai visited the Su Family and rewarded its Family Head, Su Wen, with cultivation resources and guidance before departing. He left Yan Kingdom's Imperial Capital for Jade Mist Sect, where his cultivation journey had begun.

• Su Bai confirmed his identity to Su Wen, who knelt and introduced himself as the Su Family Inner Family's current Family Head.
• Su Bai praised Su Wen's cultivation and management of the family, then gave him a Storage Bag filled with valuable resources and warned him to protect the family's wealth.
• Su Bai encouraged Su Wen to cultivate toward the Golden Core realm and used his Spiritual Power to heal his minor injuries before vanishing.
• Su Wen vowed to honor Su Bai's trust and make the Su Family flourish.
• Su Bai left the Imperial Capital and headed to Jade Mist Sect, the place where he first encountered the Cultivation World and Sword Dao.

Su Bai returned to the South Sea and found that the Immortal Palace had become the Southern Palace, but he could no longer sense his Corpse Puppet Tiangang. He sought Xuanzhe in the Palace Tower Secret Realm and learned that Xuanzhe had heard rumors of Su Bai’s ascension but doubted he had perished.

• Su Bai observed how the Immortal Palace had spent centuries changing its name to the Southern Palace and establishing itself as a respected South Sea power.
• Su Bai discovered that he could no longer sense Tiangang and considered whether the Corpse Puppet had died, been sealed, or left the Qingxuan Realm.
• Su Bai decided to ask Xuanzhe about Tiangang and the South Sea’s upheavals, then entered the Palace Tower Secret Realm.
• Xuanzhe told Su Bai that others believed he had perished after ascending, but Xuanzhe had never believed he was so easily extinguished.

Su Bai surveyed Heavenly Star City and learned that the Heavenly Star Alliance had fallen into factional infighting after Heavenly Law Ancestor’s death, while its war with the Demon Race had stalled. He identified the Green Ying Spirit Plain faction as a rising power but had not yet finished assessing the Alliance’s factions.

• Su Bai used his Spiritual Sense to gather information about Heavenly Star City and the Heavenly Star Alliance.
• Su Bai learned that the Alliance and Demon Star City each controlled five Spirit Plains and had settled into a fragile stalemate.
• Su Bai determined that the Alliance’s internal struggles had intensified after Heavenly Law Ancestor died.
• Su Bai learned that his disciple Yun Jianming led the powerful Green Ying Spirit Plain faction.
• Su Bai identified the old-established families and the Southern Sea forces centered around Thunder Cloud Palace and Pill Island as the other major factions.

Su Bai returned to Green Ying Academy after more than three hundred years away and reunited with Jiang Han. He revealed that his ascension to the Spirit Realm was not far off, leaving Jiang Han to wonder whether Su Bai had come to say a final farewell.

• Su Bai appeared during Jiang Han’s lecture, ended the class, and led him to a secluded courtyard at Green Ying Academy.
• Su Bai and Jiang Han entered the courtyard that had been carefully maintained in Su Bai’s absence and sat together for tea.
• Jiang Han welcomed Su Bai back and said he and the others had feared Su Bai had ascended without a word.
• Su Bai explained that his journey had lasted far longer than expected and said his ascension to the Spirit Realm was not far off.
• Jiang Han asked whether Su Bai had returned to bid them a final farewell.

Xiao Shixi summoned the Heavenly Star Alliance’s family faction leaders to the Star Gazing Platform for an urgent discussion about the alliance’s future. He announced that Lu Jiu had returned, leaving the assembled Nascent Soul Cultivators shaken.

• More than twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Heavenly Star Alliance’s family faction gathered at Xiao Shixi’s urgent summons.
• The chapter described Han Zhenyuan’s rise to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm and the Han and Lu Families’ ascent among the New Five Great Families.
• The chapter noted that the Feng Family had joined the Green Ying Faction and the Ying Family had declined under Xiao Shixi’s suppression.
• Xiao Shixi told the assembled leaders that Lu Jiu had returned, shocking them.

Han Zhenyuan left the Heavenly Star Alliance’s meeting to invite Lu Jiu, angered that Xiao Shixi had pushed him into the risky assignment. Xiao Shixi’s supporters rallied behind his hardline stance toward Green Ying, while Han Zhenyuan reflected on the Alliance Leader’s distrust and his own desire to pursue the Dao.

• Han Zhenyuan departed for Green Ying Spirit Plain after Xiao Shixi ordered him to invite Lu Jiu.
• Xiao Shixi told the gathered cultivators to wait for Han Zhenyuan’s news and remained resolved to confront Lu Jiu.
• An Elder of the Zhong Family and a Wang Family Nascent Soul cultivator praised Xiao Shixi’s plan and urged a forceful stance toward Green Ying.
• Other supporters echoed them, restoring the hall’s unity behind Xiao Shixi’s strategy.
• As he flew toward Green Ying City, Han Zhenyuan cursed Xiao Shixi and considered how the assignment exposed him to the risks of a clash with Lu Jiu.

Su Bai arrived above the Star Gazing Platform with Han Zhenyuan, shocking the gathered Nascent Soul Cultivators with his speed and presence. Xiao Shixi saw a chance to ambush him and secretly ordered the others to attack, unaware that Su Bai had heard every word.

• Su Bai and Han Zhenyuan emerged above the Star Gazing Platform, where the Nascent Soul Cultivators recognized Su Bai as Lu Jiu.
• Xiao Shixi flew up to greet Su Bai while privately preparing to surround and kill him with the cultivators below.
• Su Bai intercepted Xiao Shixi's telepathic orders and dismissed the plan as futile.
• Su Bai studied Xiao Shixi, noticing how power and ambition had transformed his temperament over the centuries.

Su Bai ambushed Xiao Shixi at the Star Gazing Platform, annihilated his body, and captured his Nascent Soul. As he ordered Xiao Shixi to apologize to Old Ancestor Heavenly Star, a loyal Xiao Family Elder launched a desperate attack on him.

• Su Bai appeared beside Xiao Shixi, shattered his defenses, and destroyed his body with a single punch.
• Xiao Shixi's Nascent Soul escaped the disintegrating body, but Su Bai caught it in his hand.
• Su Bai descended to the Star Gazing Platform and told Xiao Shixi to apologize to Old Ancestor Heavenly Star.
• A core Xiao Family Elder charged at Su Bai with a crescent-blade treasure and a blood-colored secret technique to save Xiao Shixi.
• Su Bai glanced toward the attacking Elder, and pure white light flashed in his eyes.

Su Bai’s command announced that Lu Jiu had become Alliance Leader after Xiao Shixi’s execution and had attained Spirit Transformation, ordering all Nascent Soul Cultivators to gather in Heavenly Star City. The Green Ying faction set out at once, while Chen Shuo and the South Sea faction absorbed the shocking news and faced the order to attend.

• Su Bai’s command spread across the Heavenly Star Alliance, announcing Xiao Shixi’s execution, Lu Jiu’s succession, and Lu Jiu’s Spirit Transformation.
• Yun Jianming received Su Bai’s personal message, gathered the Green Ying Spirit Plain’s Nascent Soul Cultivators, and led them toward Heavenly Star City.
• Chen Shuo received the command while discussing a newly discovered Spirit Vein and summoned the South Sea faction’s Nascent Soul Cultivators to a council meeting.
• Chen Shuo read the command aloud to the assembled cultivators, leaving the council hall stunned by Lu Jiu’s Spirit Transformation.

Su Bai reorganized the Heavenly Star Alliance and led its assembled forces toward Demon Star City, the Demon Race’s ancient stronghold. As the fleet approached, the city’s powerful royal clans and entrenched forces remained its defenders.

• Su Bai’s execution of Xiao Shixi and unification of the Alliance raised his standing above even its founder, Old Ancestor Heavenly Star.
• Within ten days, the Alliance assembled and reorganized armies from five Spirit Plains under Su Bai’s command.
• Su Bai divided the army into five forces and ordered them to surround Demon Star City.
• Demon Star City’s population had swelled with demons displaced from four Spirit Plains, worsening internal disorder and struggles over resources.
• The Ancient Dragon Clan, Golden Crow Clan, Demon Butterfly Clan, and other old demon forces retained control over the city.

Yinyue and the last Moon Wolf Tribe warriors were conscripted to defend the Demon Star City coalition’s southern front. Yinyue realized Crimson Baleful had assigned them to the most exposed position to use the coming battle to destroy the Moon Wolf Tribe’s remaining bloodline.

• The Demon Star City coalition prepared its crude southern defenses for the approaching Heavenely Star Alliance army, positioning tamed Demonic Beasts as expendable forces.
• Yinyue led the Moon Wolf Tribe warriors assigned to an exposed corner of the fortifications and watched Crimson Baleful command from a nearby platform.
• Yinyue recognized that Crimson Baleful had placed him and the remaining Moon Wolf Tribe warriors there to eliminate them in the battle.
• Yinyue recalled that Howling Moon had died at Su Bai’s hands and that his death had helped Crimson Baleful seize the position of Young Wolf Lord.